The Book Thief
*The Book Thief* is a 2005 novel by Markus Zusak, narrated by Death and set in Nazi Germany.
It follows Liesel Meminger, a young girl who steals books and shares them with a Jewish man hidden in her basement.
The unusual narrator and wartime setting made it a bestseller and classroom staple: We're reading *The Book Thief* for English class.
A film adaptation followed in 2013.
- foster familyTemporary child-raising arrangement
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- GermanyCentral European nation
- deathCessation of life
- narratorOne who tells events
Liesel · stealing · words · power of words · bombs · war · air raids · Hans · accordion · Nazi Germany · basement · Jewish · Rudy · hiding · ashes · pages · reading · snow
- 20th Century Books1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Catch-22, Grapes of Wrath
- Adapted NovelsHarry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings
- 2000s BestsellersHarry Potter, Twilight, The Da Vinci Code, The Kite Runner, Life of Pi
- Holocaust LiteratureAnne Frank, Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz, survivor testimony, concentration camps
- Pacific Literatureindigenous voices, whakapapa, seafaring tales
- political fictiondystopia, utopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984, dystopian fiction
narrative perspective and protagonist type
The Book ThiefA Clockwork Orange
Dystopian novel about conditioning
Lord of the Flies · American Psycho · Lolita · The Collector
book, thief, books, booked, booking, bookish, booklet, thieves, thievery